Many of the cell's metabolic processes take place in A. the cytoplasm. In prokaryotes, metabolic processes take place in the cytosol, which is the word for cytoplasm without organelles.
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<span>B. A secondary consumer that obtains its energy from the consumption of animals.
The red-tailed hawk is a secondary consumer because it feeds itself on primary consumers (those that eat plants, herbivores). Secondary consumers, by definition, </span><span>obtain their energy from eating other animals. Secondary consumers are also usually the ones that stand on the second and above rows of a food chain, being the plants at the bottom and the primary consumers just above the plants.</span>